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simulacrum中的SIMUL,也作SIMIL,源自拉丁语,意为to make like; like, resembling, similar(assimilate, facsimile, similar, simile, simultaneous),参见assimilate;simulacrum源自意为simulate的拉丁语动词simulare,simulacrum (pl. simulacra)意为“像;影,幻影;伪品,假象”,如:Life reverted to a simulacrum of what it had been. (M. Scammell)(生活回到了曾对其有过的幻想之中。)
soluble中的SOLU,也作SOLUT, SOLV,源自拉丁语,意为to loosen, free, release(absolve, dissolution, dissolve, resolve, solution, solve, solvent),参见absolve;后缀-BLE即-ABLE参见biodegradable,soluble意为“可溶的,易溶解的(in);能解释的,能解决的”,用于数学指“可解的”,如:To the optimistic young principal, the school’s problems looked challenging but soluble.(校长又乐观又年轻,对他而言,学校问题看起来虽然充满挑战,但也都能解决。)[/QUOTE